leak
US /lik/
・UK /li:k/
B1
noun
- Act of (gas, liquid) escaping through a small hole
- Information released that wasn't supposed to be
verb
- (Of a tire) to have air, liquid escaping; (Of air)
- To make secret information public
- (Liquid) to go out of/get in through crack/opening
Examples
I managed to plug the leak.
a leak of confidential material